The Professor schools Skipper and Gilligan
Mark Burgess is a true computer science pioneer. Many of the ideas around server automation that we now consider self-evident DevOps best practices can trace their roots back to Mark's work. With his work in academia (Oslo University College) and his current focus on commercial concerns (cfengine), Mark makes for the the kind of guest that John and Damon love to have on the show.
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Notes:
- We discussed Mark's interesting path to his current pursuits, CFEngine Inc. and cfengine 3
- Mark was a professor at Oslo University College when he developed cfengine
- Mark's development of Promise Theory adds to his well known work with convrgent and policy-based systems administration
- John Willis works for Enstratus
- Damon Edwards works for DTO Solutions
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